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most citedProduction of charged pions, kaons and (anti-)protons in Pb-Pb and inelastic pp collisions at = 5.02 TeV

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nucl-ex2026

ePIC Early Science Report

D. Abbott, N. Abdelrahman, S. Abhijit +781

This Early Science Report from the ePIC Collaboration outlines the compelling physics program achievable during the first years of operation of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), pri…

hep-ph2026

Light anti-nuclei in pp collisions at the LHC: production by coalescence and interaction of anti-nucleons

Niccolò Ciavarelli, Francesca Ercolessi, Francesco Noferini +1

A unified afterburner framework is presented to describe nucleon--nucleon final-state interactions and light-(anti)nuclei production via coalescence in high-energy measured in pp c…

astro-ph.IM2026

Atmospheric effects on cosmic-ray muon rate at high latitude (78.9°N)

M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini, L. Baldini +71

Since 2019, three scintillator detectors of the EEE collaboration have been continuously measuring cosmic muon rates at 78.9°N at the Ny-Ålesund Research Station (Svalbard). The re…

hep-ex2026

Electron identification and hadron discrimination using Cherenkov radiation in air and SiPMs

A. Alici, F. Carnesecchi, B. R. Achari +43

This paper presents a method to identify electrons using the Cherenkov light emitted when a charged particle travels in air and photons are detected with a Silicon PhotoMultiplier…

physics.ins-det2025

Measurements of efficiency, timing and response to irradiation for direct detection of charged particles with SiPMs

F. Carnesecchi, B. Sabiu, B. R. Achari +47

In this paper the efficiency of direct charged particle detection with different Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SiPM) sensors has been measured to be close to 100%. Time resolution of ab…

hep-ex2024★ 1 cited

First results on new helium based eco-gas mixtures for the Extreme Energy Events Project

M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini, L. Baldini +58

The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project, a joint project of the Centro Fermi (Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "E.Fermi") and INFN, has a dual purpose: a scient…

hep-ex2023

Ecological transition for the gas mixtures of the MRPC cosmic ray telescopes of the EEE Project

C. Ripoli, M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini +62

The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Collaboration is fully involved in an ecological transition. The use of the standard gas mixture, \ce{C_{2}H_{2}F_{4}}+ \ce{SF_{6}}, has stopped in…

physics.ins-det2023

Measurements of the Cherenkov effect in direct detection of charged particles with SiPMs

F. Carnesecchi, B. Sabiu, S. Strazzi +34

In this paper, different Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SiPM) sensors have been tested with charged particles to characterize the Cherenkov light produced in the sensor protection layer.…

physics.ins-det2022

Understanding the direct detection of charged particles with SiPMs

F. Carnesecchi, G. Vignola, N. Agrawal +33

In this paper evidence that the increased response of SiPM sensors to the passage of charged particles is related mainly to Cherenkov light produced in the protection layer is repo…

physics.ins-det2022

ATHENA Detector Proposal -- A Totally Hermetic Electron Nucleus Apparatus proposed for IP6 at the Electron-Ion Collider

ATHENA Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +433

ATHENA has been designed as a general purpose detector capable of delivering the full scientific scope of the Electron-Ion Collider. Careful technology choices provide fine trackin…

physics.ins-det2022★ 11 cited

Direct detection of charged particles with SiPMs

F. Carnesecchi, G. Vignola, N. Agrawal +27

The direct response of Silicon PhotoMultipliers being traversed by a MIP charged particle have been studied in a systematic way for the first time. Using beam test data, time resol…

physics.ins-det2021★ 5 cited

The cosmic muon and detector simulation framework of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment

M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini, L. Baldini +60

This paper describes the simulation framework of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment. EEE is a network of cosmic muon trackers, each made of three Multi-gap Resistive Plate…

physics.ins-det2021★ 159 cited

Science Requirements and Detector Concepts for the Electron-Ion Collider: EIC Yellow Report

R. Abdul Khalek, A. Accardi, J. Adam +410

This report describes the physics case, the resulting detector requirements, and the evolving detector concepts for the experimental program at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 9 cited

Extension of the INFN Tier-1 on a HPC system

Tommaso Boccali, Stefano Dal Pra, Daniele Spiga +10

The INFN Tier-1 located at CNAF in Bologna (Italy) is a center of the WLCG e-Infrastructure, supporting the 4 major LHC collaborations and more than 30 other INFN-related experimen…

physics.ins-det2020★ 1 cited

Characteristics and performance of the Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers of the EEE experiment

F. Coccetti, M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini +61

The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment, dedicated to the study of secondary cosmic rays, is arguably the largest detector system in the world implemented by Multigap Resistive…

physics.ins-det2020

Strategies to reduce the environmental impact in the MRPC array of the EEE experiment

M. P. Panetta, M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini +61

The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project employs Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) for studying the secondary cosmic ray muons in Extensive Air Showers. The array consists of…

physics.ins-det2020★ 1 cited

MRPC Telescope Simulation for the Extreme Energy Events Experiment

G. Mandaglio, M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini +61

A simulation tool based on GEMC framework to describe the MRPC telescope of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project is presented. The EEE experiment is mainly devoted to the study…

nucl-ex2019★ 251 cited

Production of charged pions, kaons and (anti-)protons in Pb-Pb and inelastic pp collisions at = 5.02 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

Mid-rapidity production of , and ()p measured by the ALICE experiment at the LHC, in Pb-Pb and inelastic pp collisions at …

physics.ins-det2019★ 25 cited

A next-generation LHC heavy-ion experiment

D. Adamová, G. Aglieri Rinella, M. Agnello +395

The present document discusses plans for a compact, next-generation multi-purpose detector at the LHC as a follow-up to the present ALICE experiment. The aim is to build a nearly m…

nucl-ex2018★ 24 cited

Measuring KK interactions using pp collisions at TeV

ALICE Collaboration

We present the first measurements of femtoscopic correlations between the K and K particles in pp collisions at TeV measured by the ALICE exper…

nucl-ex2018★ 41 cited

Analysis of the apparent nuclear modification in peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

Charged-particle spectra at midrapidity are measured in Pb-Pb collisions at the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon pair = 5.02 TeV and presented in centr…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1 cited

The Extreme Energy Events HECR array: status and perspectives

I. Gnesi, M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini +65

The Extreme Energy Events Project is a synchronous sparse array of 52 tracking detectors for studying High Energy Cosmic Rays (HECR) and Cosmic Rays-related phenomena. The observat…

nucl-ex2016★ 4 cited

INFN What Next: Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

A. Dainese, E. Scomparin, G. Usai +138

This document was prepared by the community that is active in Italy, within INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), in the field of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. T…

nucl-ex2012★ 23 cited

Anisotropic flow of identified particles in Pb-Pb collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV measured with ALICE at the LHC

Francesco Noferini

We report on the elliptic and triangular flow measurements for a number of hadrons including charged pions, and (anti-)protons, as well as those with strangeness content: kaons, ${…